linux/include
Ananda Raju e89e9cf539 [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach
Attached is kernel patch for UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) feature.

1. This patch incorporate the review comments by Jeff Garzik.
2. Renamed USO as UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload)
3. udp sendfile support with UFO

This patches uses scatter-gather feature of skb to generate large UDP
datagram. Below is a "how-to" on changes required in network device
driver to use the UFO interface.

UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) Interface:
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UFO is a feature wherein the Linux kernel network stack will offload the
IP fragmentation functionality of large UDP datagram to hardware. This
will reduce the overhead of stack in fragmenting the large UDP datagram to
MTU sized packets

1) Drivers indicate their capability of UFO using
dev->features |= NETIF_F_UFO | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG

NETIF_F_HW_CSUM is required for UFO over ipv6.

2) UFO packet will be submitted for transmission using driver xmit routine.
UFO packet will have a non-zero value for

"skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size"

skb_shinfo(skb)->ufo_size will indicate the length of data part in each IP
fragment going out of the adapter after IP fragmentation by hardware.

skb->data will contain MAC/IP/UDP header and skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[]
contains the data payload. The skb->ip_summed will be set to CHECKSUM_HW
indicating that hardware has to do checksum calculation. Hardware should
compute the UDP checksum of complete datagram and also ip header checksum of
each fragmented IP packet.

For IPV6 the UFO provides the fragment identification-id in
skb_shinfo(skb)->ip6_frag_id. The adapter should use this ID for generating
IPv6 fragments.

Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (forwarded)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-28 16:30:00 -02:00
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acpi [ACPI] ACPICA 20050902 2005-09-03 00:15:11 -04:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (alpha) 2005-10-28 08:16:48 -07:00
asm-arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-10-28 09:24:22 -07:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] Remove unused var from asm/futex.h 2005-09-21 16:16:29 -07:00
asm-cris [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (cris) 2005-10-28 08:16:48 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (frv) 2005-10-28 08:16:48 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (simple cases) 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] Remove unused var from asm/futex.h 2005-09-21 16:16:29 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (ia64) 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (simple cases) 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] Remove unused var from asm/futex.h 2005-09-21 16:16:29 -07:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] Remove unused var from asm/futex.h 2005-09-21 16:16:29 -07:00
asm-mips Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-10-28 09:05:25 -07:00
asm-parisc Auto-update from upstream 2005-10-28 12:18:07 -04:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] ppc32: Fix timekeeping 2005-10-12 08:24:47 -07:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (ppc) 2005-10-28 08:16:48 -07:00
asm-ppc64 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] s390 signal annotations 2005-09-29 08:46:27 -07:00
asm-sh [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (sh) 2005-10-28 08:16:48 -07:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (simple cases) 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (simple cases) 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (simple cases) 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] gfp_t: remaining bits of arch/* 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] Remove unused var from asm/futex.h 2005-09-21 16:16:29 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (amd64) 2005-10-28 08:16:48 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (xtensa) 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
linux [IPv4/IPv6]: UFO Scatter-gather approach 2005-10-28 16:30:00 -02:00
math-emu
media [PATCH] v4l: tveeprom improved to support newer Hauppage cards 2005-09-09 13:57:54 -07:00
mtd
net Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6 2005-10-28 15:49:24 -02:00
pcmcia [PATCH] yenta: auto-tune EnE bridges for CardBus cards 2005-09-26 13:09:20 +02:00
rdma [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
rxrpc [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
scsi [PATCH] gfp_t: drivers/scsi 2005-10-28 08:16:50 -07:00
sound [PATCH] gfp_t: sound 2005-10-28 08:16:50 -07:00
video [PATCH] drivers/video: Replace custom macro with isdigit() 2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00